UPDATE: Ok so, I, Pastorius, am a big fat idiot. An Anonymous commenter points out that these are Hindu names. If I would have given this even a second's thought before posting it, I would have known that those names sounded more like Hindu names. I apologize for being so stupid.
Paul Sudeep and Anand Durvasula, huh? Well, what do you know?
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Two college students were charged with criminal trespass and criminal conspiracy after police said they tried to break into Heinz Field early Sunday, hours before the Pittsburgh Steelers were to play the Denver Broncos.
Paul Sudeep and Anand Durvasula both Carnegie Mellon University students, attempted to climb the fence around the stadium at about 2 a.m. and were caught by surveillance cameras, Police Chief Nate Harper said.
The men cooperated after being apprehended, telling police they had tickets to the game Sunday afternoon and "decided to check things out so they knew where to go," Harper said.
Police found a video camera and tripod in the Lexus sport utility vehicle they were driving. Harper said Sudeep, a 21-year-old film student, was planning to film the final part of a music video featuring the 20-year-old Durvasula at Heinz Field.
"We don't know exactly what their intentions were," Harper said. He added that if the men were trying to locate their seats, "they really could have gone online ... versus coming over and trying to make entry into the stadium."
The pair opened an exterior door at one of the stadium gates, but did not go inside, Harper said. They then continued walking around the stadium, carrying a folding chair. They returned to the gate and Durvasula stepped on the chair and began climbing the fence when stadium security and police arrived, Harper said.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force -- made up of the FBI, city and Allegheny County police, and the county sheriff's office -- conducted a sweep of the stadium with bomb-detecting dogs and found no explosives, Harper said.
The men were being questioned by the terrorism task force, and Harper said the investigation was continuing. Police have added security to make sure the stadium is safe for the 4:15 p.m. game.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league was notified about the incident. "From all we're being told, it's nothing to be concerned about," Aiello said.
2 comments:
hey they're indian names and one of them is clearly hindu.
Oh, yes, I should have known they were Hindu names. I don't know what I was thinking.
Thanks for pointing that out Anonymous.
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